I work for Microsoft Corp in Redmond, Seattle, within the DevTools team, focusing on .NET and the Microsoft development platform. This blog is about technical tips and experiences about Software Architecture and Microsoft development technologies.

We completed the IASA-DDD Conference! (November 7th 2011)

It was a remarkable DDD (Domain Driven Design) event in Madrid, Spain. We got around 150 attendees!!, and taking into account that this is the inaugural event from the IASA-Spain association, and this association was almost unknown in Spain, until now, it is something I must highlight. Of course, having the keynotes delivered by Eric Evans and Udi Dahan was fundamental for achieving that.

Most attendees gave such a good feedback about the sessions and specifically about the IASA-Spain initiative because we were talking about Architecture, Design, DDD, patterns, etc., no matter what technology you work with. In fact, there were sessions and attendees used to work on .NET platform but also sessions and people used to work on Java platform. Even the sponsors were companies very heterogeneous, like: Microsoft & Oracle, or Microsoft partners, and JavaHispano.com, etc. That is good for open debates about design and architecture and also for technology interoperability and especially to learn from each other experiences.

A view of the attendees, with Diego Vega (Entity Framework Product Group Program Manager in Microsoft Corp) taking notes on his laptop. There are many other familiar faces from companies like Wolters-Kluver, Panda-Security, Telefónica I+D, Repsol, MRW, Plain-Concepts, Sogeti, Indra, Fujitsu, Unisys, Kriter, Microsoft Iberica (Consulting Services, Premier Support and DPE), NTR, Avanade, Pasiona, Aventia-Renacimiento, Raona, and a long etc. with many more companies. There were also many people from the Java community, as well:

Tomorrow (Nov. 10th) we’ll deliver the last WORKSHOP, a DDD WORKSHOP by Eric Evans. I’ll probably update this post with some info about tomorrow.

It’s been a great experience, and I really appreciate Eric Evans, Udi Dahan and Diego Vega coming to Madrid and helping us to deliver such a great event-sessions and Workshops.We really enjoyed all this week with them and all the attendees, of course!.